Samir Rafi (1926-2004) Le Baiser 1985 Oil on canvas signed and dated 2-1-85 lower right, dated on the back 41 x 33 cm Condition report: missing Egyptian painter born in Cairo, he took part in his first exhibition at the age of 17, when he was a pupil of the watercolour painter Shafiq Rizq. In Paris, he became a pupil of André Lhote at the end of the 1950s, mixing cubism and surrealism in his works inspired by the lines of ancient Egypt.